Because most major delivery companies won’t deliver to rural areas, postal workers carry their packages for what they call “the last mile.”
It’s 51 miles of country roads, gravel driveways and one-lane cow paths. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter, and it’s always loud as he rumbles around in his mail truck, a hand-me-down from a retired city fleet that he got five years ago.
Neighbors have come and gone, but not much has changed on Miller’s route during the past three decades. The lack of reliable broadband internet in parts of Gallia County only add to the importance of mail service. Carolyn Casey and her husband, Bill, know that feeling well. They’ve lived in their Gallipolis home for 49 years and have been customers on Miller’s route for most of that time.
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